Decred (DCR) Price Tops $21.06 on Exchanges

Decred (DCR) traded up 2.4% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 12:00 PM ET on April 19th. One Decred coin can now be purchased for approximately $21.06 or 0.00033087 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Decred has a market capitalization of $337.06 million and approximately $2.58 million worth of Decred was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last seven days, Decred has traded down 8.9% against the U.S. dollar.

Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:

• Compound (COMP) traded up 1.8% against the dollar and now trades at $54.87 or 0.00086186 BTC.
• Bitcoiva (BCA) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $8.25 or 0.00012951 BTC.
• EverGrow Coin (EGC) traded up 0.7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• Safe (SAFE) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.99 or 0.00003127 BTC.
• dForce USD (USX) traded 0.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.96 or 0.00001516 BTC.
• Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) traded 1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.10 or 0.00000163 BTC.
• WhiteCoin (XWC) traded up 30% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0059 or 0.00000009 BTC.
• ReddCoin (RDD) traded 6.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• Navcoin (NAV) traded 3.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0599 or 0.00000094 BTC.
• Aion (AION) traded 15.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0018 or 0.00000003 BTC.

About Decred

Decred (DCR) is a PoW/PoS coin that uses the BLAKE256 hashing algorithm. It launched on February 8th, 2016. Decred’s total supply is 16,001,154 coins. Decred’s official message board is medium.com/decred. The Reddit community for Decred is https://reddit.com/r/decred and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Decred’s official website is decred.org. Decred’s official Twitter account is @decredproject and its Facebook page is accessible here.

According to CryptoCompare, “Decred (DCR) is a hybrid PoW/PoS blockchain-based cryptocurrency, designed to ensure community involvement, open governance, and sustainable development funding. Stakeholders, or DCR holders, play a pivotal role in determining consensus rules, the blockchain’s evolution, and treasury funds allocation. Block rewards in Decred are split between PoW miners (10%), stakeholders (80%), and the Decred Treasury (10%). Stakeholders can stake their DCR for voting tickets, which grants them the power to vote on rule change proposals and approve PoW miners’ work. The Decred Treasury’s usage is decided via Politeia proposals and voting by live ticket holders. Launched in 2016 by co-founders including Alex and Jake Yocom-Piatt, Decred aims to create a truly decentralized cryptocurrency governed actively by its community.”

Decred Coin Trading

It is usually not possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Decred directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Decred should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Coinbase, Changelly or Gemini. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Decred using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

DCR/USD price chart by TradingView